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Abuse of people with learning disabilities and other vulnerable adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Leila B. Cooke  and
Valerie Sinason
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Workers in the field of learning disability drew attention to the problem of sexual abuse and learning-disabled children and adults only a decade ago (Sinason, 1986; Cooke, 1989), at the same time that British society first tolerated the knowledge that non-disabled children were being abused. Although guidelines have been produced and voluntary organisations such as the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilies (NAPSAC), the Association for Residential Care (ARC) and Voice UK have made vital contributions, psychiatric involvement and provision is uneven (ARC & NAPSAC, 1993).

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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , March 1998 , pp. 119 - 125
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1998 

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